Laura Kihlström
Official title: Senior Researcher
Tel. + 358 29 524 8370
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Health systems and policy research
- Power and inequality
- Ethnography, anthropology and cultural research
Primary duties
- Research activities related to the welfare state, health reforms, and health equity
- Health system preparedness
- Development and utilization of ethnographic and qualitative methods in health systems and policy research
Education
- 2021, Doctor of Philosophy, applied anthropology, University of South Florida
- 2021, Master of Public Health, public health, University of South Florida
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2010, Master of Science, agroecology, University of Helsinki
Professional background
- 2021 -, Senior Researcher, RECPHEALS, THL
- 2016-2021, Doctoral Candidate, University of South Florida
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2013-2015, Junior Expert, AgroBIG/Ethiopia, Niras Finland Oy
Language skills
- Finnish (native)
- Swedish (excellent)
- English (excellent)
- French (fair)
Current projects
- 2023 - For whom are health systems designed? Political determinants of health and equity in the context of health system reform in Finland (POLDEQUITY)
- 2022 – Safeguarding welfare in times of pandemics: towards collaborative governance of syndemics (WELGO)
Past projects
Publications and research
Peer review
Peer reviewer for several national and international journals/publishers, including Social Science & Medicine, Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Globalizations, Hallinnon tutkimus and Gaudeamus.
